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A moral question

What would you do with the 2 million

  • Buy everything I ever wanted

    Votes: 7 26.9%

  • Donate it to worthy causes

    Votes: 8 30.8%

  • A little of both

    Votes: 11 42.3%
  • Total voters
    26
Had a reading fail, and didn't vote from the perspective of a parent that has lost a child.

Donate it to some local charities.
 
Are you serious? I joked that I would get a robot to replace my kid and you're really torn up about this? Wow.


Goshin said:
Dude, seriously... this is not fit material to joke about. Nobody's calling you scum, okay, but it just isn't in good taste. Losing a child is worse than losing your legs... more like having half your heart cut out.

Just accept that it was a bad idea and let it go.
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I'd buy stuff. Help the parents out.
 
nota bene said:
And I also wouldn't sit in judgment of a bereaved parent and Monday-morning quarterback.
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I'm not judging anyone. It's a tragic accident and I feel sorry for them having to go through that. From what I read, the child was with the grandma, broke free and was hit by the dump truck. It could happen to anyone.
 
JC Callender said:
Are you serious? I joked that I would get a robot to replace my kid and you're really torn up about this? Wow.
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Didn't say I was torn up about it; I said it was in bad taste. There might be someone in this thread who did in fact lose a child, and the idea that a child could be replaced with a robot could be very offensive to them. There is no replacing a lost child; you can have five more kids and love each one of them, but they won't REPLACE the child you lost in your heart.

Yeah, I know it was a joke... but this just isn't a joking matter.

I'm guessing you're not a parent, right?
 
JC Callender said:
I would buy a state of the art robot to replace my kid.
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JC Callender said:
I'm sorry, did you have a child that got rolled by a dump truck?
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I understand that you believe yourself to have been witty in this thread, but the fact is that I guarantee you that there are people on this forum who have indeed suffered the agonizing loss of a child. Please have the dignity to utilize your rapier wit in other threads, where the comments won't twist a knife in the memory of the worst day of their lives. Thanks.
 
After losing their child, they deserve a life where everything is taken care of so that they can focus on recovering from their grief. I wouldn't blame them for spending the money on luxuries. I'm sure they are still going through hell every day.

As for charities... I don't trust most of them as far as I can toss them. Seems like money that goes to charities ends up anywhere but the target demographic. I'd rather establish my own charity so that I have total control over who the money is going toward.
 
Financial compensation because of negligence or other liability serves a useful purpose because it's an incentive to make a safer product or whatever. But I wouldn't enjoy having possession of "blood money," much less spending it.
 
I would invest in gold, build a cabin on a lake, and some great photography gear. I would take a long cruise on board the Celebrity Equinox and the Queen Mary II with my sig other. I would donate to civil rights organizations the green energy political groups. I would buy a Tessa automobile and a Model T.
 
I would donate the entire sum. I understand that these type of judgements are an incentive to compel a corporation to act in a safe manner (i.e. back up cameras). I fully support this. However personally, I wouldn't accept the money as personal disposable income. No amount could ever replace the loss of human life. I would give all of it to a needy cause and not to enrich my own life.
 
Mr. E said:
I would donate the entire sum. I understand that these type of judgements are an incentive to compel a corporation to act in a safe manner (i.e. back up cameras). I fully support this. However personally, I wouldn't accept the money as personal disposable income. No amount could ever replace the loss of human life. I would give all of it to a needy cause and not to enrich my own life.
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You're very noble. I just couldn't be quite so noble, I guess. However, I do know that any family member of mine would be happy to see my life enriched. If I died and my family got money from it, I would want them to enjoy themselves.
 
I'm really not sure, but we'd probably spend some of it on ourselves. At least enough to pay off the mortgage and car loans, and maybe do a little bit of work on the house. The rest I'd probably try to find some kind of charitable organization to help, or start my own.
 
nota bene said:
Financial compensation because of negligence or other liability serves a useful purpose because it's an incentive to make a safer product or whatever. But I wouldn't enjoy having possession of "blood money," much less spending it.
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So you'd be a savings glut?
 
have fun, fun, fun, til my daddy take the T-bird awaaaaay...
 
I have a moral dilema for you - if you could, would you take the $2 million or whatever part necessary and use DNA from your dead child to clone your child? It's not as far fetched as you may think.
 
No. Even if cloning were possible, all this would produce would be a biological replica of your child. This would be an entirely different child with a spirit and personality all his or her own. Children aren't replaceable.
 
First of all I wouldnt decide what to do with the money in the first few years since I would be likely to make a bad decision because of the emotional state that I would be in.

My wife and I are not rich so the money would actually be a good thing for us to receive. Of course money can never replace a human life and it would be disrespectful to waste the money on non useful things. So after my wife and I were able to decide on what to do with the money we would spend it on something useful. I have nothing against legit charities but I see no reason that I should be forced to donate money to a charity in order to be considered moral.
 
nota bene said:
I've no idea at all what you're asking.
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Well if you didn't want to spend it, you'd hold on to it, so you'd be an economic savings glut probably.
 
DiAnna said:
I understand that you believe yourself to have been witty in this thread, but the fact is that I guarantee you that there are people on this forum who have indeed suffered the agonizing loss of a child. Please have the dignity to utilize your rapier wit in other threads, where the comments won't twist a knife in the memory of the worst day of their lives. Thanks.
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Yeah, well, I am one of those people.

He will get his, as he will reap what he has sown.

Karma is an awesome equalizer.

Ignorant douchebags like him don't bother me at all.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
Well if you didn't want to spend it, you'd hold on to it, so you'd be an economic savings glut probably.
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I wouldn't want any part of blood money.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I have a moral dilema for you - if you could, would you take the $2 million or whatever part necessary and use DNA from your dead child to clone your child? It's not as far fetched as you may think.
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I don't think I would, unless they have advanced in their knowledge of how cell aging works. The reason I mention this is because I recall the case of Dolly, the sheep that was cloned, and the scientists' discovery that the cloned ewe did not live any longer than the "donor" would have, had it lived. Maybe the cloning of a child would be different, depending on how the child died, but is it worth it?
 
SMTA said:
Yeah, well, I am one of those people.

He will get his, as he will reap what he has sown.

Karma is an awesome equalizer.

Ignorant douchebags like him don't bother me at all.
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Nor I. But karma does. I wouldn't wish the death of one's child on the worst person in the world, not even a Pol Pot. I hope that the guy who thought he was being so witty never has a reason to think more deeply about this topic than he did when he posted.
 
Since I have never been in that situation, then I cannot possibly know what I would do if I were.
 
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